Bodybuilding & Fitness
The high levels of natural anthocyanin compounds present in CherryActive products help to inhibit the body's inflammatory response to exercise leading to less muscle soreness following training. Whether you are off-season doing hard heavy mass building weights, or pre-contest focusing on bringing out detail through a combination of weights and cardio, the inflammatory inhibiting effect of CherryActive helps to reduce the amount of damage done to your body, meaning muscle mass preservation, shorter recovery times, leading to greater results.
The way CherryActive works can likened to being hit in the face – your body’s reaction is to swell up and swelling means more damage. The way we counteract this is to ice the injury to help reduce the swelling. The same principle applies here – CherryActive compounds effectively ‘ice’ your muscles internally thereby reducing the swelling and lessening the damage done to the worked muscle groups leading to a shorter recovery period. Speed of recovery is essential when you are training to increase lean muscle mass – shorter recovery means you can train more often, so if you can train more often you can increase your muscle mass more effectively. The CherryActive ‘icing’ effect means you can push yourself harder in the gym, helping you to reach a new and elevated training intensity in the confidence that your muscles are protected. Harder training means better gains.
The unrivalled antioxidant power of CherryActive products also helps to 'mop-up' damaging free radicals produced by intense exercise, pollution, chemicals in food & water, and other sources which can lead to cell damage, catabolism (muscle breakdown) and burnout (fatigue). Free radical damage can limit physical performance and contribute to degeneration of the brain and organs. CherryActive was recently tested for antioxidant levels against 5 leading “Super Juices”; Acai, Goji, Noni, Pomegranate, & Black Cherry. CherryActive blew away all 5 juices and is significantly higher in antioxidant compounds. A full review of this study will be available soon. These results confirm the free radical fighting effect CherryActive consumption has, which can help preserve your muscle mass and maintain your strength and stamina – all highly important for any bodybuilder or gym user.
How to take CherryActive to Maximise your Muscle Gains
The cherry we use is in our products is called a Montmorency cherry which contains powerful health and recovery promoting antioxidant compounds in quantities and variety not found in many foods, e.g. high levels of anthocyanins, and melatonin. CherryActive has a unique growing and manufacturing process which works to harness and optimise the powerful compounds present in our carefully selected cherries, meaning the most effective health and recovery promoting Montmorency cherry products available.
The antioxidant capacity of Montmorency cherry compounds is up to 4 times more powerful than vitamins C & E combined. Our products have a host of other health benefits besides helping to improve recovery – they help to strengthen joints, maintain a healthy cardiovascular system, preserve brain health etc (see full research links for extra info), all of which are important to anyone, athlete or non-athlete.
How to Maximise your Muslce Gains & Bodybuilding Performance using CherryActive:
Use CherryActive Concentrate after each training session (as the natural sugars are perfect as a post-workout carbohydrate source and its liquid form helps with quick absorption of the recovery promoting compounds into the system [see bottom of for info on the type of natural sugar]) and CherryActive Capsules before bed (as you may be avoiding all carbohydrates in the evening/before bed as part of your diet). If you are pre-contest and on a reduced intake of carbs then you can use the caps post-workout instead of the Concentrate as they are virtually zero carb but still contain very high doses of the anti-inflammatory and antioxidant compounds which help you to recovery quickly.
CherryActive Concentrate: Take 30-90ml of Concentrate (3-9 squirts of the pump) 0-45 min after each training session, whether the session is weights or cardio. Take higher amounts according to how much work the session has put on your muscles – i.e. if you are doing a really light cardio session like a medium intensity bike where you don’t get any burn in your legs or any muscles you could even take 20ml only, but if you do hard intensity weights and your muscles feel extremely tired and achy straight away then take 60ml (you can take more if you think you need to but 60ml should be enough for an athlete with a bodyweight between 70-90kgs – bigger athletes vary the amount to your discretion). You can add CherryActive Concentrate to your usual post-workout protein shake or take it on its own. The juice is not a replacement for protein so you still need to make sure you keep protein intake high, it is simply a powerful anti-inflammatory antioxidant product that helps to inhibit the body’s inflammatory response to exercise, and counteract free radical damage.
In the evening of a hard training day you can wash your dinner down with a glass of CherryActive on-top of what you had post-workout – again the amount depending on how much stress your muscles have been put under. If you don’t think you’ll be too sore the next day then you don’t need to have it. I say this because if you are pre-contest and you are watching your carb intake closely you may want to reduce the carb portion of your meal if you do decide to have a glass of Concentrate in order to keep your total carb intake the same.
CherryActive Capsules: Take 1-2 capsules an hour before bed. If you want a really solid sleep take 2 (again larger athletes (90kg+) may wish to take more than 1-2 caps). On rest days you can take the Capsules and not the juice if you want to keep your carb intake low and still get the antioxidant and recovery boosting compounds into your system.
The melatonin in the products won’t make you sleepy during the day it simply helps to regulate your sleep-wake cycle and help you achieve a deeper and higher quality sleep when you do go to bed – again this is important for your training.
CherryActive Cherries: Work as an antioxidant packed health and recovery promoting snack food and are good for carbing up or as a post-workout snack. They are infused with apple juice concentrate so do have a medium impact on blood sugar levels.
Extra Information:
Each 30ml of CherryActive Concentrate counts as one of your “5-a-Day” for fruit and veg.
A 32g portion of CherryActive Cherries counts as one of your “5-a-Day”.
All our products are 100% natural and contain no artificial colours, flavouring, sweeteners, preservatives or added sugars.
The natural sugar in CherryActive Concentrate is “xylose” and has a low glycemic load (low GI) so has a low impact on blood sugar levels.
Any unanswered questions can be email to info@cherryactive.co.uk
